Matt, the competition calls for "a poem either in free verse mocking rhymed, metrical verse or in conventional verse mocking free verse." What you've written, if I understand it correctly, is a poem that says free verse and formal verse are more or less the same from a bookstore shoplifter's point of view. Clever, but not exactly what they seem to be looking for. Sometimes people win by coloring just a bit outside the lines (Bill Greenwell is one frequent winner who does quite well that way), but I'm not sure your entry would be in with a chance. Mind you, I feel a little bit shaky about my own entries in this comp, so take my misgivings with a grain of salt.
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